The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Church leaders push for a common Easter date, as they seek to bridge centuries-old divisions between Eastern and Western ...

When is Easter Sunday date in 2025? Why is Easter so late this year? What day does Lent end? What we know on Holy Week, Palm ...

This message from Patriarch Bartholomew was read March 17, 2024 in Orthodox parishes under the jurisdiction of Constantinople. He reminded the faithful that salvation is, above all, a “shared ...

There are an estimated 2,000 churches in New York, with dozens designated as cathedrals. Churches and cathedrals are classic ...

The Nicene Creed will be the subject of 2025 Woolman Lecture in Christian Scholarship Series at Malone University.

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

The Religion News Service article makes depressing but instructive reading, from its use of the queer pastors’ picture, to ...

For centuries, churches have used different methods to calculate the date of Easter. Rarely do they coincide. The search for ...

Joseph Mor Gregorious has been appointed as the new Catholicos of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church in India, following a ceremony in Lebanon. He succeeds the late Baselious Thomas I. The event ...

Know the dates for the end of Lent, Holy Week and Easter Sunday in 2025. Why does Easter start late this year?